Cities will determine the outcome of the fight to end Aids. Of the 35 million people living with HIV around the world, more than a quarter reside in urban hotspots affected by the pandemic. And in many major cities, over half of all people live without access to HIV prevention, testing, treatment and care.
The Public Health Service (GGD) is launching the Amsterdam PrEP project (AMPrEP): a demonstration project regarding PrEP implementation for HIV prevention among gay men and transgender people in Amsterdam. PrEP is a pill containing HIV medication that prevents HIV infection and is for people who are not infected with HIV but may be at increased risk of becoming infected. Aim of this project is to investigate how many men would want to use PrEP, how consistently tablets are taken, how they experience using PrEP and whether PrEP use changes their use of condoms.
A team of UCSF cyclists will join thousands of others this June to participate and raise money for AIDS/LifeCycle—a seven-day, 545-mile bike ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles that has become the world's largest annual, single-event AIDS fundraiser.
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Thousands of supporters walked, strolled and strutted for six miles Sunday to raise money for AIDS/HIV research at the 2015 AIDS Walk San Francisco.
San Francisco, once the epicenter of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, has since made great strides in reducing HIV transmission and implementing prevention policies. On this year’s World AIDS Day, San Francisco’s Getting to Zero Coalition unveiled a draft strategic plan, which aims to make San Francisco the first jurisdiction with zero new HIV infections, zero stigma and zero deaths
I am too young to have witnessed the worst of the AIDS epidemic. I cannot relate to the pain and horror of that time. I have had no friends die from AIDS. My generation of gay men do not feel the threat others could not ignore, and without it, my peers’ awareness of the disease is shockingly low. And while I’ve been knowledgeable about HIV since I was a teen, it wasn’t until I tested positive two years ago that AIDS became deeply personal for me.
With tremendous advances in HIV treatment and prevention, several jurisdictions in the U.S. have created frameworks to radically reduce HIV related deaths and new HIV infections. Current best practices in HIV care, treatment and prevention offer both high and low incidence areas the opportunity to develop local frameworks based on similar goals. Three existing initiatives, New York State’s End AIDS NY 2020, Washington State’s End AIDS Washington, and the City of San Francisco’s Getting to Zero SF
No new HIV infections have been seen so far among more than 650 mostly gay and bisexual men who have received pre-exposure prophylaxis – better known as PrEP – through Kaiser Permanente San Francisco since 2012, according to a report in the medical journal Clinical Infectious Diseases
Once the glass doors to the clinic open at 10 A.M. sharp, dozens of people file in from San Francisco’s Castro Street. Decked out in dressed-down West Coast chic, these super hip Bay Area residents, a mix of transgender women and men who have sex with men (MSM), are taking steps to care for their sexual health.
San Francisco will dedicate $1.7 million in new funding to support the city’s Getting to Zero program, an ongoing initiative aimed at making the city the first in the country to be free of AIDS and HIV infections.
